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Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Expansionist Eucalypti

Sound
of leaves rustling…

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Warrun:
Frighteningly aggressive.

BBC: Eucalyptus fire

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Wilga: Ssh.
They’ll hear you.

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Warrun: Even if
they could, they wouldn’t care. They’re even better equipped for taking over
territory than humans.

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Wilga: You really
think so?

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Warrun: These
trees drop leaves and bark. Then they drop oil. This becomes an oil field just
sitting there waiting for a spark. BOOM. The fire shoots up the tree to the
crown, races over the treetops and firesticks take the blaze far away.

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Wilga: A mass self
immolation taking out everything?

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Warrun: It’s a
colonization of renewal. The explosions send seeds for miles. They repopulate,
outgrow the competition, and they’ve occupied a whole new region.

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Voice-overBlue gum
eucalyptus have been called candles, gasoline trees, fireworks factories. Who
needs a legged army of conquistadores when you have such an arsenal of
botanical weapons to aggressively colonize?